Gov't to accept settlement for Minamata disease suit: Hatoyama

Gov't to accept settlement for Minamata disease suit: Hatoyama

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Sakihito Ozawa speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 18, 2010, after talks with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. Later, Hatoyama told reporters that he has decided to accept a court-brokered settlement plan for a damages suit filed by unrecognized sufferers of Minamata mercury poisoning disease.

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